In the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when the virus and the disease it caused were still largely a mystery, Elizabeth Glaser was among hundreds of women who faced a nightmare scenario. In 1981, via a blood transfusion during childbirth, she contracted HIV. She would unknowingly pass the virus to her two children: Her daughter Ariel, through breast milk, and later, her son Jake, in utero. She died in 1994.

Thirty years ago, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Margaret Heckler stepped up to a podium and announced that researchers had discovered the virus that caused AIDS.

In Kenya, the Center for African Studies launched a new campaign that seeks to address the stigma associated with condoms and HIV/AIDS by enlisting the help of a local artist to create new designs for condom wrappers.